A Manual of Ancient History

Name: A Manual of Ancient History
Author: Thalheimer, M. E. (Mary Elsie)

Thalheimer, M. E. (Mary Elsie)

History, Ancient

The Social War.                                                   304.

  Exile and Seventh Consulship of Marius.                           305.

  Dictatorship of Sulla.                                            306.

  Sertorius in Spain.                                               307.

  War of the Gladiators.                                            308.

  Extraordinary Power of Pompey.                                    311.

  Conspiracy of Catiline.                                           312.

  Triumvirate of Pompey, Cæsar, and Crassus.                        314.

  Conquests of Cæsar in Gaul, Britain, and Germany.                 315.

  Civil War; Pompey defeated at Pharsalia.                          319.

  Cæsar Victor at Thapsus, and Master of Rome.                      321.

  Murder of Cæsar in the Senate-house.                              323.

  Triumvirate of Antony, Cæsar Octavianus, and Lepidus.             324.

  Antony defeated at Actium; Octavianus becomes Augustus.           325.

      III. HISTORY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.                             326.

                              FIRST PERIOD.

  Reigns of Augustus, 326; Tiberius, 328; Caligula, Claudius,
      330; Nero, 331; Galba, Otho, Vitellius, 333; Vespasian, Titus,
      Domitian, 334; Nerva, Trajan, 335; Hadrian, T. Antoninus Pius,
      M. Aurelius Antoninus, 336; Commodus, 337.

                             SECOND PERIOD.

  Reigns of Pertinax, Didius Julianus, 338; Severus, Caracalla,
      Macrinus, Elagabalus, 339; Alexander Severus, 340; Maximin, the
      Gordians, Pupienus and Balbinus, Gordian the Younger, Philip,
      Decius, 341; Gallus, Æmilian, Valerian, Gallienus and the
      “Thirty Tyrants,” 342; Aurelian, Tacitus, Florian, 343; Probus,
      Carus, Numerian, Carinus, 344.

                              THIRD PERIOD.

  Reigns of Diocletian and Maximian with two Cæsars, 345; of
      Constantine, Maximian, and Maxentius in the West—Galerius,
      Maximin, and Licinius in the East, 348; of Constantine alone,
      and the Reörganization of the Empire, 349; of Constantine II.,
      Constans, and Constantius II., 350; of Julian, Jovian, and
      Valentinian I., 352; of Valens, 353; of Gratian, Valentinian
      II., and Theodosius I., 354.

                             FOURTH PERIOD.

  Final Separation of the Eastern and Western Empires.              356.

  Reigns, in the West, of Honorius, 356; of Valentinian III.,
      358; of Maximus, 359; of Avitus, Marjorian, Libius Severus,
      Anthemius, Olybrius, Glycerius, and Julius Nepos, 360; of
      Romulus Augustulus, 361.

                                  MAPS.

  I. The World as known to the Assyrians.                   facing   17.

  II. Empire of the Persians.                                 ”      97.

  III. Ancient Greece and the Ægean Sea.                      ”     113.

  IV. Empire of the Macedonians.                              ”     209.

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